Two clenched fists show the word KNITPURL tattooed one letter per finger in a serif lettering style, with black outlines and pink, orange and yellow fills on the hands.

KNITPURL lettering across knuckles

Lettering · Hand · Mixed · Photo

Two clenched fists are shown from the front, with the word KNITPURL tattooed one letter per finger across both hands. The letters use a serif typeface with black outlines and pink, orange and yellow shading on several letters. The background shows a knitted jumper and a patterned shirt, with the composition tightly framed on the hands.

Find an artist for this

Take it to an artist as a reference. A good artist will make it yours rather than copy someone else's tattoo.

A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The lift had been out since Tuesday, so Nell Cardew took the stairs to the fourteenth floor with a carrier bag of wool and a pattern she had photocopied at the library. The stairwell smelt of bleach and somebody's chip supper. Her grandson Ray was waiting on the landing with his arms folded, not quite looking at her. "Nan said you'd know how to fix it," he said, holding up a navy cardigan with one sleeve half pulled out of it.

Keep reading

It had been his grandad's, and Ray had unravelled a row trying to make it longer and then could not stop. Nell sat on the cracked step by the fire door and showed him the difference. Knit towards you, the needle goes in from the front, wraps, pulls through. Purl away. "Same stitch, other way round," she said. "Like catching yourself in a shop window and deciding it's not you."

He practised on the corner of a carrier bag, then on a scrap of grey yarn, swearing softly at every dropped loop. Nell didn't hurry him. Below them a door banged, a football match leaked through a wall, and the tower creaked the way it always did when the wind came up off the estate. By the time the landing light clicked off on its timer, Ray had three neat rows of ribbing, uneven but holding.

"Right," he said, and stood. He rolled the cardigan back into a ball, careful this time, and tucked the loose end under his thumb. "Tomorrow, the sleeve." Nell smoothed the pattern across her knee and found she had nothing to add. He went down the stairs in the dark, counting stitches out loud the way his grandad used to.

More like this

Close-up of black and grey script lettering with shaded flourishes across the lower abdomen, with a green succulent plant tattoo at the upper right.
Script lettering with flourishes across the stomach
Two vertical lines of black block lettering tattooed down the front of a person's lower legs, with the left reading YOU MAY NOT REMEMBER and the right reading BUT ILL NEVER FORGET.
Two-line quote down the shins
Black outline tattoo of an open hand making the British Sign Language I love you sign, on the lower leg, with no shading or colour.
Sign language I love you hand on lower leg
Black script lettering reading Mischief Managed in two lines across the inner wrist and lower forearm.
Mischief Managed lettering on a wrist
Black fine-line tally marks, four upright strokes crossed by a fifth, tattooed on the inner forearm near the wrist.
Tally marks on a forearm
Close photo of a black blackletter-style lettering tattoo running vertically along the inside of a forearm, in solid black ink.
Vertical blackletter lettering on forearm
Fine line black heart and key tattoos on the fingers of two clasped hands.
Heart and key tattoos on clasped fingers
Two hands with traditional style tattoos on the backs and fingers, showing a crowned Jesus figure on one hand and a SERVANT HEART banner on the other, with letters across the fingers.
Traditional hand tattoos with Jesus and lettering
Lettering tattoo reading RECKLESS in black ink on the lower lip, shown with the mouth open and a hand resting near the chin.
Reckless lettering on lower lip
Two small traditional-style Tudor rose tattoos in red and blue on the side fingers of two hands pressed together, with black script lettering tattooed on the thighs behind.
Matching Tudor roses on two fingers
Close-up of a fine line black script tattoo reading til death along a finger, with a blurred background.
Til death script on a finger
Black linework leafy branch tattoo running across the back of both hands, with small dot tattoos and a heart on the fingers, in botanical style.
Leafy branch across the knuckles of both hands

From the plentytattoo archive, uploaded by a user. Is this your work? Ask for credit or removal.